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Old King Cole
Old King Cole
Directed by	David Hand
Produced by	Walt Disney
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	July 29, 1933;
Running time	7:15
Country	United States
Language	English

Old King Cole is a Disney cartoon in the Silly Symphonies series, based on several nursery rhymes and fairy tales, including "Old King Cole". It was directed by David Hand and released on July 29, 1933.^[1]

It's a semi-remake of the 1931 Silly Symphony short Mother Goose Melodies, but in color, with more details and technically advanced animation.

Plot

One evening in Storyland, the story book "Old King Cole" opens itself, and the king's castle folds open. Other nursery rhyme books do the same thing, and several famous characters leave their homes and go to Old King Cole's party. There, all the characters have a small sing-and-dance act. When the Ten Little Indians get on stage, their dance is so catchy that Old King Cole and all the other characters join in as well. After Old Mother Hubbard accidentally pushes Old King Cole into a fountain, the mice from "Hickory Dickory Dock" tell everybody that it is midnight and that everybody should go home. All the characters return to their books, and Old King Cole sings a farewell song to everybody. Then he puts out a bottle of milk for the milkman before he runs back inside, and the cartoon ends.

Characters portrayed

The cartoon featured popular Nursery Rhyme and Fairy Tale characters. Depicted in the cartoon in chronological order are:

Old King Cole
Pied Piper of Hamelin
Little Boy Blue
A literally crooked man (There Was A Crooked Man)
Old Mother Hubbard
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Mary and her lamb (Mary Had A Little Lamb)
Little Bo Peep and her sheep
Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
A cat playing the fiddle (Hey Diddle Diddle)
Queen of Hearts
Mary and her garden (Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary)
Pandora's Box
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Jack Sprat
Goosey Gander
Humpty Dumpty
The spider from Little Miss Muffet
Simple Simon
Three Little Kittens
Three Blind Mice
Ten Little Indians
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker from Rub-a-dub-dub, all dancing together in their washtub
The mice from Hickory Dickory Dock.

Composers' credits (lyrics and music)

KING COLE'S PARTY (opening song), Bert Lewis^[2]^[3]
PIPER MAN, Frank Churchill
LITTLE BOY BLUE, Frank Churchill
CROOKED MAN, Frank Churchill
KING COLE'S WELCOME SONG, Bert Lewis
MARY, MARY QUITE CONTRARY, Frank Churchill
SIMPLE SIMON, Frank Churchill
THREE LITTLE KITTENS, Bert Lewis
THREE BLIND MICE and TEN LITTLE INDIANS, Bert Lewis and Frank Churchill
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, Bert Lewis
KING COLE'S GOOD-NIGHT SONG, Bert Lewis and Frank Churchill
THE STORY BOOK CLOSES, Bert Lewis^[4]^[5]

Voice cast

King Cole: Allan Watson
Girl trio: The Rhythmettes (including Mary Moder, Beatrice Hagen, and Dorothy Compton)
Additional voices: Marcellite Garner^[1] And Mildred Dixon

Influence

Old King Cole is similar in plot and style to the black and white Silly Symphony Mother Goose Melodies. Various cartoons have made use of a storyline in which story books come to life and the protagonists of the stories interact with each other, including Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) and The Truth About Mother Goose (1957) by Disney Studios themselves, the Betty Boop cartoon Mother Goose Land (1933) by Fleischer Studios, and the Looney Tunes shorts Have You Got Any Castles? (1938), A Gander at Mother Goose (1940), A Coy Decoy (1941) and Book Revue (1946).

Home media

The short was released on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 130–131. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
^ "Bert Lewis". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
^ "Composed by Bert Lewis (great grandfather) - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
^ Schroeder, Russell (2016). Old King Cole - A Walt Disney - Silly Symphony. Asheville, NC: Voigt Publications. pp. 1–31. ISBN 978-1-5323-0472-9.
^ Bohn, James (2017). Music in Disney's Animated Features. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 15–16, 20, 22, 26–28, 40–41, 44, 55. ISBN 978-1-4968-1214-8.